NAMCO BANDAI Games America announced today that Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel, a new RPG property for the Nintendo DS, is now in development. Featuring an all-new original storyline, Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel promises original characters created exclusively for the game and an intuitive battle system based on action from the popular animated series.

Players will live the origins and stories of all-new characters as they join Inuyasha characters in the struggle to unlock the mystery of the Divine Jewel. Utilizing and uniting familiar faces like Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippo, players will battle hordes of demons in this RPG using a command-based control scheme and the new Cover Fellow System (CFS). The game will be released in January 2007.